Utada Hikaru's name...

[slashess]

anyone ever noticed when translated into english, it means "Song be Star" or "Star be Song"?

[JimmyKoria]

The tada part means "many fields."

宇/ta is like heaven. And Hikaru is "light" but that's kind obvious.

[theprojectzero]

Originally Posted by KORiA

The tada part means "many fields."

宇/ta is like heaven. And Hikaru is "light" but that's kind obvious.

宇/ta I think it's more like universe than heaven...

[sango1070]

Originally Posted by KORiA

The tada part means "many fields."

宇/ta is like heaven. And Hikaru is "light" but that's kind obvious.

actually hikari is more like "light"

[greggerz189]

I thought 'Hikaru' was more like the verb "to shine" or "to glitter" or "to be bright" rather than the noun "light"...

[JimmyKoria]

Originally Posted by greggerz189

I thought 'Hikaru' was more like the verb "to shine" or "to glitter" or "to be bright" rather than the noun "light"...

The way it was written in the newspaper was "光" and I didn't see it as "光る" so I assume it's a noun and not a verb because if it was a verb it would be "光る?" someone care to elaborate?

For her career she spells it ヒカル instead of using kanji.

[PickleCookies]

It is.

[bluegie]

yeah... I dunno about Japanese.. but the way they write Utada in Japanese is exactly the same as in Chinese.. so

宇 = universe
多 = many
田 = field, farm
光 = light

but the meaning should be totally different once the characters placed together.. so probly 宇多田 means something in Japanese... I just dunno .

[Calico]

^If you used that direct translation, then her name would mean something like...

"There are many bright fields in the universe."

I feel like there should be some Star Wars music inserted there.

But if that's bad, it's okay. My host sister's sister's name means "Hey! The western village smells pretty good!"

Bwah. Ahah.

[sexysaucestar]

^ That's funny, about Utada's name and about your host sister's sister's name.

[bluegie]

yeah.. i wanna see the kanji of Calico's host sister's name...LOL

[Calico]

I don't have her sister's kanji off hand, but I know it's "Nishimura Kana" My host sister says that Nishimura means "west village" and "kana" is "smells pretty". ^_^

[JimmyKoria]

Originally Posted by Calico

I don't have her sister's kanji off hand, but I know it's "Nishimura Kana" My host sister says that Nishimura means "west village" and "kana" is "smells pretty". ^_^

西村 is Nishimura, but I have no idea what kanji are used for Kana.

[slashess]

hmm...I know for a fact that Hikari means "Light" and hikaru means "Shining/Star/glitter" even though I'm a native American I can speak Japanese pretty fluent

[JimmyKoria]

Originally Posted by slashess

hmm...I know for a fact that Hikari means "Light" and hikaru means "Shining/Star/glitter" even though I'm a native American I can speak Japanese pretty fluent

Not to sound mean, but every jmusic/anime fan talks about how fluent they are. I don't think there is nothing wrong with being proud of your skills in Japanese but, not everyone is or is going to be super Japanese langauge speaker but learning a bit of Japanese to begin with is hard.

[slashess]

Originally Posted by KORiA

Not to sound mean, but every jmusic/anime fan talks about how fluent they are. I don't think there is nothing wrong with being proud of your skills in Japanese but, not everyone is or is going to be super Japanese langauge speaker but learning a bit of Japanese to begin with is hard.

just to clear some things up, I had to live in japan for 4 years so that's how I learned and that's not the subject we're talking about.

Anyways, yeah, it could mean other things really than song be star or whatever. Maybe it's just a coincidence that her name is translated like that.

[bluegie]

sometimes a character can have different meanings. It's possible that those two meanings apply to her name as well.

[Deep snow]

hmmmm, she's got a very unique name then....

[Lumix]

Wow that's interesting!

[Cloud]

You just can't translate Japanese names like that.